This market was prompted by the deletion of a market that claimed some University department was full of Nazis, and the banning of its creator. See here for some of the background discussion:

https://discord.com/channels/915138780216823849/938171760237477998/1012950339743395840

https://manifold.markets/SneakySly/who-will-be-the-first-user-banned-f

There have also been a number of instances where the Manifold team has stepped in to resolve a market that its creator abandoned, and other times when they did not do so. See for example:

https://manifold.markets/DrP/will-donald-trump-by-the-president

https://manifold.markets/GregB/will-bitcoin-be-above-50k-by-the-en

For some other discussion of this:

https://manifold.markets/Undox/market-resolution-is-yes-but-undox

https://manifold.markets/Austin/will-manifold-set-abandoned-questio

I'm not a fan of the current state of affairs, where market resolution/deletion can seemingly be dictated by the arbitrary whims of any Manifold employee.

I'm aware that Manifold is still relatively new and is engaging in experimentation to figure out where to take the platform. It's reasonable for there to be a trial period where they play with their moderation, observe the reactions, and nothing is yet set in stone. Austin's question above makes it clear that they're still considering where to go with this. But that period needs to end at some point.

This market resolves to YES if by the end of the year we have a clear statement about when Manifold will resolve someone else's market or delete or edit someone else's market or comment. Some ambiguity and subjectivity is of course unavoidable in these sorts of policies, but it should at the very least tell us what can happen to our markets/comments against our will and what sort of things we need to do to avoid that happening.